{"id":33515,"date":"2023-06-09T02:03:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T08:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-conservation-district-receives-grant\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:10:51","slug":"mancos-conservation-district-receives-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-conservation-district-receives-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos Conservation District receives grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f7a290f4-fd9c-43e6-b125-7e16976e6c35&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Natural Resource Technician for the Mancos Conservation District Jeff Fowlds, right, talks to Basin Salinity Technician David Smilnak at a stream in Mancos in August. Fowlds conducts monthly testing of riverbeds, riverbanks and stream water around Mancos to keep the Conservation District up to date on measures of the health of the Mancos watershed.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Natural Resource Technician for the Mancos Conservation District Jeff Fowlds, right, talks to Basin Salinity Technician David Smilnak at a stream in Mancos in August. Fowlds conducts monthly testing of riverbeds, riverbanks and stream water around Mancos to keep the Conservation District up to date on measures of the health of the Mancos watershed.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Mancos Conservation District announced in a news release Thursday that it has been awarded a grant from Colorado Parks and Wildlife for 2023-2024.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the grant is to \u201ccultivate partnerships that advance and balance outdoor recreation and conservation in Colorado, promote Colorado\u2019s Outdoor Principles, and support the priority areas identified in our Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan,\u201d Colorado Parks and Wildlife states.<\/p>\n<p>A news release from the Mancos Conservation District said it would host activities related to conservation to achieve the goals of the grant funding. These include tours of both the lower and higher portions of the watershed in Mancos, a river cleanup on the stretch of the Mancos River that flows through town, and \u201cquarterly stewardship activities,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>The activities will allow the community to get involved in conservation efforts through hands-on opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to offer these opportunities to the Mancos community while working alongside CPW,\u201d the release stated.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Sensa Wolcott, Mancos Conservation District Watershed Coordinator, at (970) 903-9882 or by email at <a href=\"mailto:mancoscd.coordinator@gmail.com\">mancoscd.coordinator@gmail.com<\/a> with questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife award Partners in the Outdoors Grant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82238,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33515\/revisions\/82238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33515"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}